Kim Mcgill

Justice: the Mike Amato Detective a Series Kim Mcgill

'Justice" is a work offiction that entices the reader to grapple with questions about what justice really means. Does a courtroom decision equal justice? Do two wrongs make a right? Does assassinating a killer make the act just? These are a few the questions raised in "Justice"... questions for the reader to ponder and answer. Police Lieutenant, Mike Amato and his squad of detectives are faced with the task of identifying and finding the person who has stalked, abducted, abused and murdered three young children in the streets of Rochester, New York. Following each murder, the killer torments the parents of his victims with details of the child's abduction and murder. With each murder, community hysteria increases and Amato and his squad feel the pressure to apprehend the killer. Although the killer is finallyapprehended and he readily admits to the killings and blames his own abuse-riddled childhood as the motive for his reign of terror the killer is let free on a technicality, but he killings don't stop there. Now the squad has to pressure of making sure the killer is caught again and not set free this time. But how can they make sure the killer doesn't slip through the judicial cracks again? As with the other Mike Amato novels, this work also contains a prologue and epilogue. In the prologue to 'Justice" a rookie cop and his training officer discuss the concepts offairness versus justice. In the epilogue, Lt. Mike Amato finishes thediscussion and asks the readers to decide if justice was served.